Re: [Pan-users] Re: patch: support for multiple spellchecker languages

[Rui Maciel]

On Thursday 21 August 2008 02:03:38 Duncan wrote:
> I only write English (to any useful degree anyway) so this won't directly
> affect me personally, but I know it'll be a welcome change for many! =:^)
>
> I don't expect Charles will want to add the additional enchant
> dependency, but then, he hasn't been too keen on complicated settings
> either.  Thus it may be that he won't add this right away, tho I'd hope
> he will, with or without the enchant dependency (which would after all
> still be linked to the spelling option, which can be turned off along
> with its dependencies at compile time).

I also believe that adding Enchant to the mix is a bit too much work to get 
too little reward. GtkSpell v3 would easily fix that problem but 
unfortunately I don't believe it's going to be released anytime soon.


> Either way, tho, PLEASE PLEASE either open a bug with this and attach the
> patch.  Even if Charles doesn't include the patch upstream right away,
> it's likely various distributions will.  In the bug, you can reference
> your post and further discussion here as:
>
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.user/10090
>
> When you have a bug number/URL, please post a followup here with it, as
> I'd like to submit it for Gentoo inclusion ASAP, and they'll be much more
> likely to carry it if it's already bugged upstream.  Or if you'd prefer
> to let me, say so, and I'll referencing your post as above (as I probably
> will in a week or so anyway if you don't get to it).

After looking into the issue I noticed that there was already a bug report 
asking for this feature. The bug report is available at:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527688

I've posted the patch (same patch with a small tweak) but I didn't add any 
reference to this discussion, as it is currently a bit minimalistic.


Rui Maciel